Neanderthal

I'm thinking about doing album reviews in real time, during my first listen.  Just to be ahead of the pack.  I think the Youtube community would really enjoy me shouting what I'm hearing through my headphones.

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Much like Kanye and Drake, he could put out anything at this point and the masses would eat it up, especially people who don't listen to hip-hop. It's cool to like his music. I can see why the production on here is appealing, but the lyrical content is extremely average and repetitive to me. I fail to see how he's this amazing storyteller. He shows flashes of being great (see HiiiPower), but he hasn't put it together yet in my opinion.    

Okay guys. I'm looking to add to my collection and it's time for some more brand new merchandise so show me what you've got! I already have Daisy and The Devil and God are raging inside me both on black vinyl so those are out.

you can get a digital copy on bandcamp now. i just did it and i've been listening all morning. i'm so glad the band took this direction. the first album was a little too crazy and all over the place. this one takes a little while to dissect, like all pyramids releases, but it flows so well. 

I dropped so much on vinyl... Snagged the last green Bushcraft
EDIT: the show was killer, Waingro opened, kinda stoner metal, not my thing, but really good live. Sumac was next, it's the first time I've seen Aaron in anything, he's a fucking God. So precise in everything he does. Brian and Nick were beyond amazing as well. I'm pretty sure they played the entire album minus the full ambient bits. Baptists were killer, Nick really shines with them.
EDIT2: Got OMG Ape2 & Meditation, Mammifier, Split Cranium, and Baptists - Bushcraft for $80 all in. I don't think they adjusted for Canadian. I would have picked up Ape1 but I ran out of money, I shouldn't have bought all that beer :/

I'm here at the Victoria show, and was just talking to Aaron about the Sumac pressing. I asked him straight out what the issue was, he said he wasn't happy with the sound and the plant wasn't willing to be flexible so he dropped them. He did preface that he's super nitpicky and other people were happy with the pressing.
He said that he's heard the test of the next pressing and was 100% happy with it.
He also said they accidentally sold all the clear on the first show, so it's totally sold out now.

Think it'll be hard to top 2014 for the Flenser.
 
So far Profound Lore is top notch this year. Sumac, Leviathan, Pyramids, Prurient, and who knows what else is on the way...

I wasn't able to listen yet but I have some free time today and am going to listen. Sorry for taking over this thread with OMG stuff, haha.

another new track
 
http://noisey.vice.com/blog/pyramids-song-stream

How does that clear Meditations sound? Apparently it was remastered by Plotkin.

I picked up a copy of that album when it came out and I've kind of been saving it for a rainy day so to speak.  I should probably get on that since the next album is on it's way.  I now have weekend listening.

I never understood how people could be obsessed with a label and just buy everything they put out, and then I found The Flenser.

Indeed they are. Just in case you dudes weren't aware, I update the front page as much as I can.

Mirrored will always be the jam.

Not so much about who's in the band, or who isn't, for that matter. Just can't help but draw entirely different comparisons now, it's like a total paradigm shift.
S/T was more my taste anyway, though, or at least at the time that it came out it connected with me more, I should really revisit it. SWWW S/T is great too, need to revisit that as well.  Maybe this new one will connect after more listens.
Definitely not bad, just didn't grip me immediately the the other albums I mentioned.  I wasn't too into anything other than S/T tbh (Horseback collab, nadja* collab, mamiffer collab.)  I didn't even pick up the mamiffer collab, and I used to collect everything ELLH and Mamiffer related, too.  But I had high hopes for this since its the proper follow-up to s/t... well I haven't heard the whole thing yet, and I might just pick it up on CD anyway and then end up liking it after a proper front-to-back listen.
[*]To be fair I probably never gave the nadja collab enough listening time.
 
I think they get it now, just kind of hard to believe at first.  I, too, thought, 'wow really? but pyramids and rxb don't sound very similar.'  Hell I even was friends with 'Rich Loren' as he was known on fb and knew him from Pyramids and SWWW, but I had also known of and listened to rxb and tsoaf and didn't even make that connection.  Until I learned the First initial Middle name format, that's when I was like 'oh, shit, weird.' Even just thinking about the other band's they've done collabs with... it such a different fit.  But that why I just see it as same members, different band leader, different vision.
And I'm not sure if I'd ever heard Matt Kelly's vocals? I'm not as familiar with his stuff, what other bands was he in?

Thanks for the info Derek! Here's to hoping it does indeed sound and feel sublime. 

Thank you! I hate unknowingly waiting. I feel like I'm lost in a parallel universe. It's so beautiful outside too. Fuck music, physical copies, and their addictive properties. 

Thank you based Fear o' Fart records.

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I can't stop listening to the new Boduf Songs...

Ah cool, didn't realize the front page was being updated!
 
Not really release related, but Wreck & Reference announced a tour too.
 
http://lambgoat.com/news/24186/Wreck-and-Reference-So-Stressed-tour-dates

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